Driving
By: Sylvia Engdahl, book editor
Series: Teen rights and freedoms; Teen rights and freedoms
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780737769975
Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION; Transportation; Social Science; Teenage automobile drivers; Teenagers; General; Social Issues; Automobile drivers; Juvenile literature; Legal status, laws; Adolescence
Description: "This timely new series examines a broad range of perceived, practical, or actual legal rights and freedoms impacting the daily lives of teens. Each volume focuses on a different right or freedom. Material is drawn from primary and secondary sources. Many volumes cover rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how these rights are interpreted and protected in regards to minors"--

"Each volume in the series focuses on a different right or freedom and offers an anthology of key essays and articles on that right or freedom and the responsibilities that come with it"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Many factors lead to unsafe driving by teens / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; title: 2. Age restrictions for obtaining a driver's license were adopted early in the twentieth century / Daniel R. Mayhew, Michele Fields, and Herbert M. Simpson; title: 3. Graduated driver licensing laws reduce fatal teen crashes / National Institutes of Health; title: 4. Graduated driver licensing laws increase fatal crashes for eighteen-year-olds / James C. Fell and Eduardo Romano; title: 5. Graduated driver licensing laws are unfair and endanger lives / Bill Bystricky; title: 6. Teens, parents differ on graduated driver's licenses / Larry Copeland; title: 7. Requiring teen drivers to display license plate decals is controversial / Courier News (Somerville, NJ); title: 8. The minimum driving age should be raised / William H. Longyard; title: 9. The minimum driving age should not be raised / Mike Rogers; title: 10. Electronics top distractions for teen drivers / David Morgan; title: 11. A teen tells how he killed his best friend through distracted driving / Matthew Verrinder; title: 12. Teen-run traffic courts can help improve teens' poor driving habits / Sara Jean Green; title: 13. Teens arrested for drinking and driving face harsher consequences than do adult offenders / FreeAdvice.com; title: 14. Losing driving privileges for underage drinking is constitutional / Thomas L. Kilbride.